Ernst Georg Jünger

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Ernst Georg Jünger (born April 8, 1868 in Hanover ; † January 9, 1943 ) was a German pharmacist and chemist . One of his sons was Ernst Jünger .

Life

As the son of a Hanoverian high school teacher , Jünger studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1893 he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga Munich . In Munich he met Karoline Lampl (1873–1950), a musically and socially inclined woman from a Catholic Franconian - Bavarian family from Dießen and Eichstätt . To the Dr. phil. PhD , Jünger became assistant to Victor Meyer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Before he married "Lily" on Heligoland , his later famous son Ernst Jünger was born in Heidelberg . Shortly afterwards, the family moved to Jünger's hometown of Hanover, where Jünger set up his own laboratory as a forensic and commercial chemist. He isolated the coumarin from the woodruff . Jünger bought a pharmacy in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. , but moved with his family to Rehburg am Steinhuder Meer in 1907 . From there he worked successfully in potash mining . After the First World War he took over the Löwenapotheke in Leisnig , Saxony . In the spring of 1932 he joined the NSDAP . According to the assumption of Ernst Jünger biographer Helmuth Kiesel, "Ernst Georg Jünger did not - or not only - follow his political convictions, but gave in to the pressure that was exerted on his peers during this time and that was enormous."

Ernst Georg Jünger is buried with his wife Lily (1873–1950) and their son Hans-Otto (1905–1976) in Leisnig, where he probably also died. The tombstone on the Leisniger cemetery has been preserved. The grandsons Ernst Jünger (1926–1944) and Kurt Deventer (1924–1945) are also listed on it in memory.

According to the memories of his son Ernst, Ernst Georg Jünger was an easy man to be enthusiastic about, an opera lover with a strictly rationalistic attitude, a passionate chess player who at times took refuge in the world of games and games.

“The rational climate at Heidelberg University had shaped him unmistakably. Natural sciences - especially chemistry - and history were the cornerstones. The view of history was also positivistic; it was determined by the great individuals. He was particularly fond of Alexander, Cortez, Wallenstein, and Napoleon. Then there are the paladins: the Argonauts, the Diadochi, the conquistadors, the marshals. It struck me that, in spite of his preference for large operations, my father hardly took any mental interest in the First World War; he missed the logical conciseness - the material became too strong. The Skagerrak Battle , which he studied like a game of chess, was an exception . "

- Ernst Jünger about his father

Ernst Georg and Lilly Jünger had six children: Ernst (1895–1998), Friedrich Georg (1898–1977), Johanna Hermine (1899–1984), Hans Otto (1905–1976) and Wolfgang (1908–1975). The brothers Hermann and Felix died early.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corps list Brunsviga Munich
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1960, 105/72.
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Amos: Jünger, Ernst (2011) (PDF; 593 kB).
  4. ↑ a b c Heimo Schwilk: Ernst Jünger. Life and work in pictures and texts . Stuttgart 1988 .
  5. ^ Helmuth Kiesel: Ernst Jünger. The biography. Siedler, 2007, p. 344.
personal data
SURNAME Younger, Ernst Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1943